HttpWebRequest not passing Credentials

Question

I'm trying to use HTTPWebRequest to access a REST service, and am having problems passing credentials in, see code below. I've read that NetworkCredential doesn't support SSL, and I'm hitting an HTTPS site. Does anyone know of a class similar to NetworkCredential that does support SSL?

Uri requestUri = null;
Uri.TryCreate("https://mywebserver/webpage", UriKind.Absolute, out requestUri);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri);
NetworkCredential nc = new NetworkCredential("user", "password");
request.Credentials = nc;
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Answer 1

See if it shows up when you use the old-fashioned method:

string credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("user"+ ":" + "password"));
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials);